I will happily have raisins in my soda bread. (That's what I can get at the store.) But if I have raisins at home, I'd just rather eat the raisins and not bake with them.
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I will happily have raisins in my soda bread. (That's what I can get at the store.) But if I have raisins at home, I'd just rather eat the raisins and not bake with them.
My hunch, and this is based on absolutely nothing, is that Winslet is playing Theodwyn, the sister of Theoden and the mother of Eomer and Eowyn. I can see Rohan in Winslet.
No raisins. (I just looked at the recipe.) Oats and yogurt, though!
My local supermarket makes a good loaf. I'll check them tomorrow.
The last time I made soda bread was about this time six years ago. I had bought a Peanuts cookbook, and it has a soda bread with oatmeal recipe.
"There is no meaningful MAGA split on Iran...The war in Iran is unpopular, but that is the case because of opposition from a supermajority of Democrats, a majority of Independents, and a sliver of Republicans...A group that is 'split' approximately 85%-5% isn’t really split at all."
just one more imperial war bro. just one more imperial war i swear. One more imperial war will fix it and display our inherent superiority over lesser peoples once and for all bsky.app/profile/mfor...
I applied for a job through ZipRecruiter.
I then received a text that my resume was a strong fit and I needed to do an AI screening.
The AI screener bounced me after two questions.
Less than ten minutes from application to rejection.
Wide shot of the Motter obelisk, light gray and much more recent than anything around it, all of which date to mid-19th to early 20th-century. The stones around it seem to belong to the people named on the light gray stone.
The side on the light gray obelisk for Lewis Motter, born in December 1836, died November 1854 a few weeks shy of his 18th-birthday.
The other Motter children: Alice, aged 7 months. Daniel (presumably Junior), aged 1 year 4 months Louisa, aged 6 months Charles, aged 10 months. For reference, the side for Lewis is on the right face. The side for the mother, Catherine (1814-1888) is on the left face, and the side for the father, Daniel Motter (1814-1854) is on the rear face.
I went to York's Prospect Hill Cemetery today. This light gray marker is much more recent than the surrounding stones, and with five children, four dying in infancy, one at 17, there was a real sense of grief written into stone. I wonder when this was erected and by whom.
This was my deep-dive a few years into into the design weirdness of the USS Surak, Spock's command in the mid-80s comics, and how Tom Sutton could not draw it consistently.
His art captured the *idea* of Star Trek if not the literalness of Star Trek. That's refreshing.
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I have talked many times about my love for Tom Sutton's Star Trek. The characters don't look like the actors, the tech doesn't look anything like what we see on screen, and the Excelsior is utterly ginormous. Sutton's Excelsior probably dwarfs the canon Enterprise-D. Absolutely love it.
I would add Rubio to that list, but yes. Heads need to roll, and Trump will probably have to fire people in order to extricate himself -- and the world -- from this giant mess.
When Diamond Select Toys held the licenses for both Star Trek and Marvel, I sent a suggestion downstairs that they could do two Trek/X-Men blister card sets, one for each of the crossovers (TOS and TNG), with 4 or 6 characters split evenly. They never got back to me, and obviously never did it.
Historian Eric Foner has noted that the history Americans are taught in schools would not produce the world we inhabit.
Long before William Penn came here, generations of American Indians lived and thrived on these lands.
While #America250PA celebrates the 250th birthday of the United States, we also want to take this time to celebrate the indigenous nations that called Pennsylvania home.
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.
GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.
I've used it in the past without issue
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
This 37% zone where Trump has settled is close to the percentage of people who are authoritarian (about 1 in 3, per social science studies)
I hadn't thought about David Copperfield since about 1990. I figured he had a moment and went into, I dunno, corporate banking.
I passed $3.69 and $3.79 to get to the grocery store.
$3.59 for gas this morning.
So much winning. 🙄
Weird. I've been thinking that Lindsey's bloodthirsty campaign is about the first time he has been consistent with Meghan's dad since his death.
The 2008 film version of Brideshead is beautiful and that cast is stacked, but two hours is not enough time for the story, which doesn't naturally map to s film structure anyway.
I wonder if the Andrew Garfield version will ever get made.
I have too many collections of public domain Sherlock Holmes films. The film I was looking for was not on the two collections I hadn't boxed up, so I had to go looking for it. It was found.
I remember having a conversation at Diamond with a colleague, sometime around 2022, and I figured that two hundred dollars more a month would have made a real difference.
I see the worm of the Diamond bankruptcy continues to turn.
The Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of comics.
Shakes head.
I've played a *lot* of Sid Meier's Civilization in my time, and what strikes me the most about the past two (or ten) years is this:
The United States was a handful of turns from a Cultural victory, and suddenly we swerved and decided to go for a military instead. Now we're going to lose everything.
Trump has made billions from the presidency and he is now using the services for our military dead as an opportunity to sell his branded merchandise (the cap). He should not be wearing headwear of any kind at this moment, let alone something he sells on the internet. This is indecent.
